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but yet you go to prison because he talked about it why do you think this administration president obama who signed an executive order to stop torture at the very beginning of his first term why do you think he's protecting folks from the previous administration most people don't realize this but president obama has surrounded himself with the same intelligence advisors who advised president bush through most of the first term the cia had the same deputy director that bush had the same director of operations that bush had john brennan who is president obama's new designee to be the cia director and until what a week ago or so was the deputy national security adviser was under president bush the director of the national counterterrorism center and up to his eyeballs in torture policy so even though we changed presidents there was really no change of intelligence advisors at least not on counterterrorism john brennan you mentioned john brennan and i want to ask you about him the future head of the cia what kind of a cia chief is he going to be in your opinion i think he's going to be someb
but yet you go to prison because he talked about it why do you think this administration president obama who signed an executive order to stop torture at the very beginning of his first term why do you think he's protecting folks from the previous administration most people don't realize this but president obama has surrounded himself with the same intelligence advisors who advised president bush through most of the first term the cia had the same deputy director that bush had the same director...
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unify or willing to sit down for talks with asad a strictly one sided solution although recently the obama administration has taken a more distant tone on syria perhaps thanks to fallout from other arab spring countries like libya and egypt the nuclear ambitions of iran and north korea remain high on the agenda especially with north korea's recent underground test but again while both russia and the u.s. condemn any nuclear steps or weaponization the two differ greatly on how to deal with them russia's against threats of more sanctions or further isolation while the u.s. has gone as far as saying military intervention it's not off the table especially in the case of iran in europe and u.s. plans to expand on missile defense systems and russia's concerns over its national security are considered the number one issue to have sidetracked a so-called reset but a shadow over by lateral relations is now russian children adopted by american parents the latest russian child to die might seem mean three years old only moscow was informed of the tragedy a month after mark seems death his legs head a
unify or willing to sit down for talks with asad a strictly one sided solution although recently the obama administration has taken a more distant tone on syria perhaps thanks to fallout from other arab spring countries like libya and egypt the nuclear ambitions of iran and north korea remain high on the agenda especially with north korea's recent underground test but again while both russia and the u.s. condemn any nuclear steps or weaponization the two differ greatly on how to deal with them...
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the iraq war on the jewish lobby with some believing he could also be too soft on iran but president obama firmly believes he's the right man for the job is gone she can reports chuck hagel was confirmed by the senate fifty eight votes for forty one vote against a narrow vote as you can see but he can finally leave all that apologizing and repenting behind and he had to do a lot of that to get the job shopping has been working very hard to tailor his views so as to please congress as a senator chuck hagel allowed himself to oppose the surge in iraq to criticize israel's policies to oppose seeing war when they want as an option but as the president's nominee for the defense secretary position he backtracked on much of what he had said before and did it. as as even his supporters noted in a rather clumsy way but in a way that showed how much he wanted the job and the whole confirmation process including the attack campaign against him including the filibuster ten days ago showed how intolerant the u.s. congress is of alternative thought on foreign policy ten days ago the senators knew quite
the iraq war on the jewish lobby with some believing he could also be too soft on iran but president obama firmly believes he's the right man for the job is gone she can reports chuck hagel was confirmed by the senate fifty eight votes for forty one vote against a narrow vote as you can see but he can finally leave all that apologizing and repenting behind and he had to do a lot of that to get the job shopping has been working very hard to tailor his views so as to please congress as a senator...
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still has obama i think by the true call that i will do its utmost to prevent obama for a making any real serious concessions or entering in through a statesmanship diplomacy with the islamic republic of iran we have heard some optimistic language john kerry stating in a meeting in london or during a briefing with reporters that he wants mutual respect with iran however if we look at the behavior if you look at the offers which were made i understand that the lifting of sanctions but rather giving of sanctions i think that the pro israeli roy and the israeli club if i could say in general still has a significant amount of control and leverage on u.s. policy towards iran and five plus one talks and if this trend continues i don't think we could expect much because iran has made it clear that it will not be all down to talks or to pressures with a gun pointed at its head you know syria i mean it seems to me that you know here after year month after month we seem to be sort of experiencing the same kind of situation over and over again what hope is there for progress if as you say the u
still has obama i think by the true call that i will do its utmost to prevent obama for a making any real serious concessions or entering in through a statesmanship diplomacy with the islamic republic of iran we have heard some optimistic language john kerry stating in a meeting in london or during a briefing with reporters that he wants mutual respect with iran however if we look at the behavior if you look at the offers which were made i understand that the lifting of sanctions but rather...
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another of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief faces his latest possible today and coming up later this hour oakland where truck cable stuns up to being all but hung out to dry in a base had autism stand off. and also lay so one well fat is on fat u.k. unemployment benefits lead to generations giving up want to go into one because it's more lucrative to take government handouts basons much more after the break. we speak your language any time of the war not a day of. news programs and documentaries in spanish more matches to you breaking news a little too much of angles to the stories. here. to try to alter the spanish find out more visit. all teeth. pulled. this is honestly life for most kids good to have you with us let's move on now having tried this stick it will reportedly be the current for iran today as world powers meet with tehran's nuclear representatives in kazakhstan and according to sources the islamic republic will even be offered a less helpful sunshines of tehran shuts down a fortified nuclear site bearing in a moment to hold some of its enrichme
another of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief faces his latest possible today and coming up later this hour oakland where truck cable stuns up to being all but hung out to dry in a base had autism stand off. and also lay so one well fat is on fat u.k. unemployment benefits lead to generations giving up want to go into one because it's more lucrative to take government handouts basons much more after the break. we speak your language any time of the war not a day of....
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well from drone strikes to torture techniques tough questions are in store for barack obama's nominee for the cia head at his confirmation hearing in the senate which has just kicked off now it's already been interrupted by protests but it has now resume john brennan is widely seen as an architect of the u.s. drone strategy in an effort to avoid scrutiny around brennan's can of the see the u.s. president has even agreed to hand over classified documents justifying the killing of american terror suspects abroad now that is after years of keeping it a secret as art and its you can reports confirmation might broaden the horizons for america's drone fleet. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability and their revolutionizing north america by loudly nice to see and keep you from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long docum
well from drone strikes to torture techniques tough questions are in store for barack obama's nominee for the cia head at his confirmation hearing in the senate which has just kicked off now it's already been interrupted by protests but it has now resume john brennan is widely seen as an architect of the u.s. drone strategy in an effort to avoid scrutiny around brennan's can of the see the u.s. president has even agreed to hand over classified documents justifying the killing of american terror...
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dot com including how president obama could start a cyber war with the push of a button and the website to find out about the ability of the white house allowing him to launch a preemptive cyber attack on any country plus. a city in pakistan where osama bin ladin was assassinated is due to get a fun make over to improve its image over to r.t. dot com to find out what islam about has in mind for the former home of the world's most wanted terrorist. britain's police have used the identities of dead children as a cover for its officers according to an investigation by the guardian newspaper parents of the children were not asked for approval or even informed message of a journalist tony gosling feels the metropolitan police his methods are unacceptable. it's just the latest chapter isn't it of police corruption here in britain i mean i'm pinching myself today wondering if i live in a democracy or not we're talking about the identities of eighty dead children stolen by the police i mean you do want to tell you where else these infiltrations have been taking place as well do they have police
dot com including how president obama could start a cyber war with the push of a button and the website to find out about the ability of the white house allowing him to launch a preemptive cyber attack on any country plus. a city in pakistan where osama bin ladin was assassinated is due to get a fun make over to improve its image over to r.t. dot com to find out what islam about has in mind for the former home of the world's most wanted terrorist. britain's police have used the identities of...
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another of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief faces his latest battle today coming up we're told from where chuck hagel starts after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. also later this hour the cost of peace and money doubles with african nations now demanding almost a billion dollars to maintain a force that france has its own plans for the region to the details in just a few miles. having tried this stick it will reportedly be the current for iran today as well pa was made with tehran's nuclear representatives in kazakhstan according to sources the islamic republic will even be offered a let up on sanctions to run shuts down a fortified nuclear site buried in a mountain and hold some of its enrichment activities in return according to reports sanctions on the trade in gold and precious metals could be lifted the measures along with an oil embargo has put tremendous pressure on iran but is also used more is the notion of course now they've also prepared the ground for some of the country's exports. the international ban on iranian oi
another of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief faces his latest battle today coming up we're told from where chuck hagel starts after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. also later this hour the cost of peace and money doubles with african nations now demanding almost a billion dollars to maintain a force that france has its own plans for the region to the details in just a few miles. having tried this stick it will reportedly be the current for...
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eventually be confirmed but they chose to block the vote as many say just to make a point president obama certainly knew that chuck hagel confirmation process would not go as smoothly as say john kerry's but he nominated him anyway it looks like president obama too wanted to make a point this is his last term he doesn't have to think about getting reelected and it is a good time for him to make a point by the end of his first term the degree of war mongering in washington has escalated and we should the point where even the president said there's too much work talking going on now mandating chuck hagel could be his way of bringing it down a notch the president is also quite aware of the general war fatigue in the country but the u.s. congress doesn't seem to have that same war fatigue this chuck hagel confirmation hearing showed quite to the contrary never too tired for war it seems one more thing it thing important to point out here chuck hagel as defense secretary lew not be in a position to generate policy is there to fulfill the president's policies probably his main job will be manag
eventually be confirmed but they chose to block the vote as many say just to make a point president obama certainly knew that chuck hagel confirmation process would not go as smoothly as say john kerry's but he nominated him anyway it looks like president obama too wanted to make a point this is his last term he doesn't have to think about getting reelected and it is a good time for him to make a point by the end of his first term the degree of war mongering in washington has escalated and we...
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a happy president well the use of drones which goes about forty five people so for trained bush and obama administrations most of them during obama with eight to four percent of those killed are actually higher value than to be targets so we will use drones throughout the area and the french. are happy to have this and as i said earlier look the british policy is really the one that governs africa they know it best they look down upon africa and they're going to carry out their stabilization and there will be genocide there will be death from starvation lack of food destabilization of governments and the french and the united states unfortunately i will get pulled into this you know the french may have other motives where they've done they're in danger of getting dragged in which is why i think they're going to try to get out the next fifty to thirty days what is the motive everyone any of you i mean you're in a they be at they share a pretty pretty intense china side serious destabilisation of why what's the purpose you have to understand the british people don't the british empire still
a happy president well the use of drones which goes about forty five people so for trained bush and obama administrations most of them during obama with eight to four percent of those killed are actually higher value than to be targets so we will use drones throughout the area and the french. are happy to have this and as i said earlier look the british policy is really the one that governs africa they know it best they look down upon africa and they're going to carry out their stabilization...
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stunt from obama's cybersecurity so you can. curate his policies analysis that's a tough one every now and again down to up at second position here it's all about espionage well that's fairly easy to believe a thirteen percent down to the orange or yellow a glimpse into world war three i think perhaps i'm getting a bit dramatic down to the fourth position of the bare minimum saying that a world between washington and beijing a cyberwarfare president obama is sending a very clear warning to china while we're still taking your votes that are to dot com we love it when you get involved to let us know what you think and for the meanwhile i'll be back with more global news after a very short break. it's technology innovations all the latest developments from around russia we've. covered. sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought . i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. more news today. thes
stunt from obama's cybersecurity so you can. curate his policies analysis that's a tough one every now and again down to up at second position here it's all about espionage well that's fairly easy to believe a thirteen percent down to the orange or yellow a glimpse into world war three i think perhaps i'm getting a bit dramatic down to the fourth position of the bare minimum saying that a world between washington and beijing a cyberwarfare president obama is sending a very clear warning to...
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president barack obama signed an executive order aimed at strengthening america's cyber defense when you know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails we know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets . now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid our financial institutions our traffic control systems we cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our comp but according to reports washington is all too familiar with the offensive side of cyber war it's the u.s. who launches things like stuxnet that you go there with israel to to cripple certain iranian technology capabilities in two thousand and ten a computer virus known as stock snap infected tehran's enrichment facilities destroying nearly one thousand of iran's six thousand centrifuges according to reports the virus made entirely out of code was a joint collaboration between the us and israel in terms of a pandora's box i think it will be slightly harder for the united states to adopt a position o
president barack obama signed an executive order aimed at strengthening america's cyber defense when you know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails we know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets . now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid our financial institutions our traffic control systems we cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our comp but...
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so this is not being an anti obama thing but obama took the bush secrecy regime and expanded that by an order of magnitude everything including classification numbers have gone up the number of people being targeted for assassination has gone up the actual number of people we've been killing has gone up instead of torturing people we're just blowing them off the face of the planet so i think it's gotten worse under obama it has been just stayed the same and his affirmatively gotten worse john i want to address what the judge said in this case when she handed you the sentence judge leoni brinkema she said i think thirty months is way too light she goes on to say that this is not a case of a whistleblower. certainly when i accepted the plea in october of two thousand and twelve judge brinkema commented at that time in open court that thirty months was if it was a fair and appropriate deal. she. i can only speculate of course but in january just last friday the courtroom was packed with reporters and she may have seen an opportunity to to look tough in a case like mine that's one point
so this is not being an anti obama thing but obama took the bush secrecy regime and expanded that by an order of magnitude everything including classification numbers have gone up the number of people being targeted for assassination has gone up the actual number of people we've been killing has gone up instead of torturing people we're just blowing them off the face of the planet so i think it's gotten worse under obama it has been just stayed the same and his affirmatively gotten worse john i...
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positions that they received and they concluded that those whose political connections to president obama were measured in dollars for the administration service had an increased chance of representing the united states and western europe and a smaller chance of serving in say central asia or sub-saharan africa donors and advisers involved in the diplomatic selection process say the competition this year has been so tight that those who have raised less than a million dollars are for the most part unlikely to be considered so what is the quote unquote price tag for the highly sought diplomatic posts according to this study friends and monaco topped the list with a level of personal contributions at six point two million dollars quote unquote the price for a position in the u.k. the authors find appears to live between six hundred fifty thousand dollars and two point three million dollars a posting in luxembourg is valued as three point one million dollars and appointment to portugal was predicted to have a value of around six hundred thousand dollars like all modern presidents before him
positions that they received and they concluded that those whose political connections to president obama were measured in dollars for the administration service had an increased chance of representing the united states and western europe and a smaller chance of serving in say central asia or sub-saharan africa donors and advisers involved in the diplomatic selection process say the competition this year has been so tight that those who have raised less than a million dollars are for the most...
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vote as many say just to make a point well guy it's probably fair to say that anyone that president obama would have nominated would have been controversial since it's hard to please those lawmakers up there on capitol hill but why do you think the president chose chuck hagel specifically given the controversy that's erupted over this. this was a very interesting decision on president obama's part he certainly knew that chuck hagel confirmation process would not go as smoothly as say john kerry's but he nominated haggling we i know it looks like president obama too wanted to make a point and this is his last term he doesn't have to think about getting reelected and it is a good time for him to make a point but by the end of his first term the degree of war mongering in washington has escalated and reached a point where the president were even the president says there is too much war talk going on nominating chalk a go could be his way of bringing bringing it down a notch he is also quite aware of the general war fatigue in the country but the us tom was doesn't seem to have that same war
vote as many say just to make a point well guy it's probably fair to say that anyone that president obama would have nominated would have been controversial since it's hard to please those lawmakers up there on capitol hill but why do you think the president chose chuck hagel specifically given the controversy that's erupted over this. this was a very interesting decision on president obama's part he certainly knew that chuck hagel confirmation process would not go as smoothly as say john...
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that would be transparency for russia situations well another one of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief is about to face his latest battle coming up a report on where chuck hagel stands after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. well germany has been boosting it is its arms sales to gulf monarchies despite the grim human rights record of countries like saudi arabia qatar and bahrain now activists are sounding the alarm over the trend accusing berlin of moral bankruptcy is let's have a detailed look now at how this breaks down we have a little chart here german arms to gulf states now last year the total value of germany's approved arms exports to gulf states today is almost one and a half a billion dollar euro's they soared from two thousand and eleven as you can see right there with exports stood at just over five hundred million euros saudi arabia actually was the main recipient of the weapons with its share in two thousand and twelve being nine times bigger than the year before there you can see it right there were earlier r.t. spok
that would be transparency for russia situations well another one of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief is about to face his latest battle coming up a report on where chuck hagel stands after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. well germany has been boosting it is its arms sales to gulf monarchies despite the grim human rights record of countries like saudi arabia qatar and bahrain now activists are sounding the alarm over the trend accusing...
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and not obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief faces his latest battle today coming up later in the program the report when chuck hagel stands after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. and the cost of peace and money doubles with african nations now demanding almost a billion dollars to maintain a force that france has its own plans for the region and the details in just a few months for the. italians are waking up today to deadlocks political system and all the votes are still being counted no single political group has enough support to take the reins of the debt ridden nation so this time the rise of candidates and former comedian but the green though has taken many by surprise after voters turned out in that droves to make his this strong this past week in a silly but is the center left coalition led by pier luigi bersani that has won control of the lower house and it also claimed the most seats in the senate but not enough to be able to govern and political on its own restfulness says struggling attorney and feel let down by that point i
and not obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief faces his latest battle today coming up later in the program the report when chuck hagel stands after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. and the cost of peace and money doubles with african nations now demanding almost a billion dollars to maintain a force that france has its own plans for the region and the details in just a few months for the. italians are waking up today to deadlocks political...
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positions that they received and they concluded that those whose political connections to president obama were measured in dollars rather than administration services had an increased chance of representing the united states in western europe and a small a chance of serving in say central asia or sub-saharan africa donors and advisers involved in the diplomatic selection process say the competition this year has been so tight that those who have raised less than a million dollars are for the most part unlikely to be considered so what is the quote unquote price tag for the highly sought diplomatic posts according to this study friends in monaco topped the list with the level of personal contributions of six point two million dollars the price for a position in the u.k. the authors find appears to be between six hundred fifty thousand dollars and two point three million dollars president obama has appointed friends and donors to about thirty percent of diplomatic posts while seventy percent of the post go to career diplomats so judging by this research career diplomats go to places like ye
positions that they received and they concluded that those whose political connections to president obama were measured in dollars rather than administration services had an increased chance of representing the united states in western europe and a small a chance of serving in say central asia or sub-saharan africa donors and advisers involved in the diplomatic selection process say the competition this year has been so tight that those who have raised less than a million dollars are for the...
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well john kerry may be the new secretary of state but another one of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief is about to face his latest battle coming up we're going to report on the where chuck hagel stands after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. also as germany doubles arms exports to the gulf states we look at the possible repercussions of berlin selling weapons to the repressive regimes that and much more after a short break. wealthy british sign on. the time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my next concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report on our. welcome back i'm lucy catherine of germany's boosting its arms sales to gulf monarchies despite the grim human rights records of countries like saudi arabia bahrain and qatar now activists have been sounding the alarm over the trend accusing berlin of quote moral bankruptcy so let's take a detailed look now at these arms sales figures if we can pull that up on the screen right there what we see
well john kerry may be the new secretary of state but another one of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief is about to face his latest battle coming up we're going to report on the where chuck hagel stands after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. also as germany doubles arms exports to the gulf states we look at the possible repercussions of berlin selling weapons to the repressive regimes that and much more after a short break. wealthy british...
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missiles defense which is essentially a first rate weapon targeted assassinations intensified under obama and its assertion of his right to order the killing of american citizens anywhere in the world is kerry going to stand up in international forums and say no that's wrong we can't do that i don't think so neither did hillary clinton. now bulgaria may be about a pull the plug on the construction of a new nuclear power plant which is being financed by russia despite a national referendum voting in favor of the project just last weekend and the result though was an old jews who are low turnout the country's ruling party is now expected to use its majority in parliament to stop the work on the but lina power plant due to high costs some experts believe is the result of pressure from bulgaria as allies so concerned the country could become dependent on russian energy a local m.p. or charge off says the government went out of its way to discourage people from supporting the project. you have to take into account that we are using clear nuclear power or approximately forty years and that the
missiles defense which is essentially a first rate weapon targeted assassinations intensified under obama and its assertion of his right to order the killing of american citizens anywhere in the world is kerry going to stand up in international forums and say no that's wrong we can't do that i don't think so neither did hillary clinton. now bulgaria may be about a pull the plug on the construction of a new nuclear power plant which is being financed by russia despite a national referendum...
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held across the lights in action does the day of resistance activists and officials denounce bronc obama's plans to further regulate firearm ownership citing the constitutional right to bear arms support for gun control has soared in america in recent years following a number of high profile killing sprees. and while the gun debate rages across the us it's violence in schools that are more urgent topic across the atlantic knuckle dusters knives and even firearms are increasingly finding their way into british schools with authorities trying to curb the apparent epidemic our first let a youth worker who says the violence at school was the norm for him. you probably end up in a dead end job or in prison you'll be lucky to be alive when you're sixteen. you know our parent is gone our courage is not for no for teaching going to say anything about a stark insight into the reality facing some of christian school children despite having one of the best education systems in the world the latest research estimates that up to four peoples a day a court with weapons in british schools guns knives and
held across the lights in action does the day of resistance activists and officials denounce bronc obama's plans to further regulate firearm ownership citing the constitutional right to bear arms support for gun control has soared in america in recent years following a number of high profile killing sprees. and while the gun debate rages across the us it's violence in schools that are more urgent topic across the atlantic knuckle dusters knives and even firearms are increasingly finding their...
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and it's often called president obama's jewel of achievements during his first term i'm talking about health care reform but is obamacare actually the answer to the u.s. health care crisis a report on that coming up. it's monday february fourth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. today marks john kerry's first official day as the sixty eighth secretary of state and perhaps not a moment too soon topping secretary kerry's agenda is a push to restart peace talks between israelis and palestinians and in the immediate future he plans to address the volatile situations in egypt and also in north africa his appointment comes amid dropping u.s. approval ratings in the middle east something that hillary clinton addressed last week. some of the success is that being attributed to you is the mending fix in you know it's the it's relation with have been mostly more yet the statistics contradict that if you look at the pew set this it shows that actually your favorite is him in comparison the bush administration is lower and in countries like turkey usually than a
and it's often called president obama's jewel of achievements during his first term i'm talking about health care reform but is obamacare actually the answer to the u.s. health care crisis a report on that coming up. it's monday february fourth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. today marks john kerry's first official day as the sixty eighth secretary of state and perhaps not a moment too soon topping secretary kerry's agenda is a push to restart peace talks...
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have a value of around six hundred thousand dollars like all modern presidents before him president obama has appointed friends and donors to about thirty percent of diplomatic post while seventy percent of the posts go to career diplomats so judging by this word research career diplomats go to places like yemen while big donors go to monaco. nobody of course calls it by barry here these are just respectable donors who get what they want when they pay the price or rather than john kerry he's just come into office and lots of these recent findings i guess there will be those wondering if he whipped out his book. well bill we don't know how much and whether john kerry paid for his position probably not he's in no position to be envied really these are challenging times for u.s. foreign service u.s. embassies have come under attack in a number of muslim countries just within the last year the u.s. ambassador to libya was killed in september shortly after the u.s. helped carry out regime change there and there's a sense of denial in washington that this rage against the americans in the musli
have a value of around six hundred thousand dollars like all modern presidents before him president obama has appointed friends and donors to about thirty percent of diplomatic post while seventy percent of the posts go to career diplomats so judging by this word research career diplomats go to places like yemen while big donors go to monaco. nobody of course calls it by barry here these are just respectable donors who get what they want when they pay the price or rather than john kerry he's...
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well after a long a partisan fueled standoff obama's pick for secretary of defense is to be voted on later on tuesday and chuck hagel certainly drew the ire of republicans from the outset and some of his views put him at all with his own party at a rather lackluster performance at his initial confirmation hearing well that didn't help either guy nature can reports. a number of republican senators including john mccain say chuck hagel is not qualified for the job but they indicate that they're going to allow the full senate to vote because what happened ten days ago was that the senators voted to postpone the vote and to continue the debate so it's all likely that they're going to keep stalling the vote over confirmation and he will be confirmed there's no doubt about that the votes are there but the humiliation that he had to grow through during these last few months sent a message all by itself right now chuck hagel is this great painting figure who keeps apologizing for the positions he has taken before that the statements he had made before including that war with iran should not
well after a long a partisan fueled standoff obama's pick for secretary of defense is to be voted on later on tuesday and chuck hagel certainly drew the ire of republicans from the outset and some of his views put him at all with his own party at a rather lackluster performance at his initial confirmation hearing well that didn't help either guy nature can reports. a number of republican senators including john mccain say chuck hagel is not qualified for the job but they indicate that they're...
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have a value of around six hundred thousand dollars like all modern presidents before him president obama has appointed friends and donors to about thirty percent of diplomatic post while seventy percent of the posts go to career diplomats so judging by this word research career diplomats go to places like yemen while big donors go to monaco. nobody of course calls it by barry here these are just respectable donors who get what they want when they pay the price or at the end john kerry has just come into office and knowledge of these recent findings i guess there will be those wondering if he whipped out his church. well bill we don't know how much and whether john kerry paid for his position probably not he's in no position to be envied really these are challenging times for u.s. foreign service u.s. embassies have come under attack in a number of muslim countries just within the last year the u.s. ambassador to libya was killed in september shortly after the u.s. helped carry out regime change there and there's a sense of denial in washington that this rage against the americans in the
have a value of around six hundred thousand dollars like all modern presidents before him president obama has appointed friends and donors to about thirty percent of diplomatic post while seventy percent of the posts go to career diplomats so judging by this word research career diplomats go to places like yemen while big donors go to monaco. nobody of course calls it by barry here these are just respectable donors who get what they want when they pay the price or at the end john kerry has just...
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the republican party they've come up with one mission and one mission only to make for the present obama fails at all costs and they're willing to do anything including cuts happening in their own districts just to make this possible shows how retarded and stupid they are going to be. just make it to the middle this is this is this is and i completely agree with you tom just kidding also you're going to withdraw that remark you just made right this is your opportunity to say oh no are you going to use that word or are you going to are i draw those like i thought long word choice where the president was involved tom is when his people negotiated demanded a sequester it was his idea when you say it was an intruder who said he got ninety eight percent of what he wanted he was a very icy man obama's team negotiating with congress asked for the sequester and sister. on defense cuts and the president and i had states signed the budget control act of two thousand and eleven and touted it during the campaign when obama said that he had already cut spending during the campaign against romney he i
the republican party they've come up with one mission and one mission only to make for the present obama fails at all costs and they're willing to do anything including cuts happening in their own districts just to make this possible shows how retarded and stupid they are going to be. just make it to the middle this is this is this is and i completely agree with you tom just kidding also you're going to withdraw that remark you just made right this is your opportunity to say oh no are you going...
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law they're not something that president obama can just give away at best president obama can waive implementation of some of the same sions for six months at a time and that's only until congress takes away his waiver authority so there's not that much the united states actually can give on sanctions and in the meantime iran is becoming more and more self-sufficient in a range of issues so that it's not vulnerable to such kind of sanctions the critical issue for the iranians and i think this is where they perceived a slight and i stress slight movement on the u.s. side is in the recognition of their rights their sovereign and their treaty base rights to enrich uranium what that does is not solve the problem but it allows a process to go forward of negotiations and suddenly go she ations over how much the united states and other key parties are going to allow iran to exercise its rights this does not resolve the problem but what it does is puts in place a process in a sense diffuse the urgency and to constrain other parties who may want to go to war attack iran in various ways constrain those part
law they're not something that president obama can just give away at best president obama can waive implementation of some of the same sions for six months at a time and that's only until congress takes away his waiver authority so there's not that much the united states actually can give on sanctions and in the meantime iran is becoming more and more self-sufficient in a range of issues so that it's not vulnerable to such kind of sanctions the critical issue for the iranians and i think this...
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well another one of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief is about to face his latest coming up we report on where chuck hagel stands after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. oh well germany is a posting its arms sales to gulf monarchies despite the grim human rights record of some of those countries including saudi arabia off grain and qatar and now activists are sounding the alarm over the trend accusing berlin of moral bankruptcy let's take a detailed look now at how this has broken out if we can pull up the graphics and we will in a moment now last year the total value of germany's approved arms exports to gulf states stood at almost one and a half billion euros you can see that right there they soared from two thousand and eleven as you can see right there when exports stood at a little more than five hundred million euros saudi arabia was the main recipient of the weapons with its share in two thousand and twelve being nine times bigger than the year before that will be in the slide there it is nine times over there and how we als
well another one of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief is about to face his latest coming up we report on where chuck hagel stands after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. oh well germany is a posting its arms sales to gulf monarchies despite the grim human rights record of some of those countries including saudi arabia off grain and qatar and now activists are sounding the alarm over the trend accusing berlin of moral bankruptcy let's take a...